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Can I read Plants for a Future: Edible and Useful Plants for a Healthier World on EtoBox?

Plants for a Future: Edible and Useful Plants for a Healthier World by Fern, Ken is a cooking available to read on EtoBox.

What is Plants for a Future: Edible and Useful Plants for a Healthier World about?

The way we currently produce our food is damaging both to ourselves and our planet. There is therefore a need to create gardens, woodlands and farms which are in harmony with nature. Natural ecosystems are good models, but many of the plants they contain are not necessarily edible. What we need is to discover and grow a wide variety of easily grown perennial and self-seeding annuals which provide delicious and healthy food, or are useful in other ways. Describing plants such as these, both native to Britain and Europe and from temperate areas around the world, this book includes those suitable for: the ornamental garden, the edible lawn, shade, ponds, walls, hedges, agroforestry and conservation. In this thoroughly useful book, Ken Fern shares his experiments and successes in growing herbs, vegetables, flowers, shrubs and trees. Packed with information, personal anecdote and detailed appendices and indexes, this pioneering book takes gardening, conservation and ecology into a new dimension.

Who reads Plants for a Future: Edible and Useful Plants for a Healthier World?

It is typically read by readers building habits, skills, productivity or wellbeing.

Common subject areas: self-improvement, productivity, wellness.

Author
Fern, Ken
Publisher
Permanent Publications; Distributed in the USA by Chelsea Green Pub. Co.; Permanenet Pubns; Brand: Permanent Publications
Published
2000
Language
EN
ISBN
9781856230117
Category
cooking
Subjects
Science, Nature, Home & Lifestyle
Rating
4.53 / 5 (32 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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